The book promises to be a single source of introductory knowledge on business intelligence which can be taught in one semester. It will provide a good start for first time learners typically from the engineering and management discipline. Business Intelligence subject cannot be studied in isolation. The book provides a holistic coverage beginning with an enterprise context, developing deeper understanding through the use of tools, touching a few domains where BI is embraced and discussing the problems that BI can help solve. It covers the complete life cycle of BI/Analytics project: Covering operational/transactional data sources, data transformation, data mart/warehouse design-build, analytical reporting, and dashboards. To ensure that concepts can be practiced for deeper understanding at low cost, the book is accompanied with step-by-step hands-on manual in the CD. Special Features · Foreword by Prof R Natarajan, Former Chairman, AICTE, Former Director, IIT Madras. · Excellent authorship. · Single source of introductory knowledge on business intelligence (BI). · Provides a good start for first-time learners typically from the engineering and management discipline. · Covers the complete life cycle of BI/Analytics Application development project. · Helps develop deeper understanding of the subject with an enterprise context, and discusses its application in businesses. · Explains concepts with the help of illustrations, application to real-life scenarios and provides opportunities to test understanding. · States the pre-requisites for each chapter and different reference sources available. · In addition the book also has the following pedagogical features: · Industrial application case studies. · Crossword puzzles/do it yourself exercises/assignments to help with self-assessment. The solutions to these have also been provided.

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